Demo of Instrumentation-similarity-based Music Information Retrieval

This demo illustrates the retrieval of musical pieces that have similar instrumentation to a specified one by a user. Because this is a prototype demo version, you can only select a musical piece from the list prepared in advance. This demo uses both Java and JavaScript. Errors may occur in some browsers. If your browser causes errors, please try a different browser or contact me (kitahara@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp).

Please select a musical piece from the list bellow.

You can listen to the selected piece
with visualization of instrument existence probabilities.
Use instrogram (proposed) Use MFCCs (conventional)


Please click this button to retrieve pieces that have similar instrumentation.
Similarity calculation may take around 20sec with the current implementation.


Please select a piece from the retrieved pieces and click the above button to listen to it.
The values in brackets are the dissimilarities.